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How about a plan of action?
Step #1: 1 week of Nominations. Existing committers can nominate new committers by sending
a note
to the dev mailing list.
Step #2: One of the ASF sponsors consolidates the list of nominations and starts a VOTE on
the dev
mailing list. VOTE is open for 1 week. Existing committers can use +1/+0/-0/-1 to indicate
their
preference in an email to the dev mailing list.
Step #3: ASF sponsor conveys the result of the VOTE to the incubator PMC and asks for permission
to add the new committers.
-- dims
--- Jeremy Boynes <jeremy@coredevelopers.net> wrote:
> > From: Greg Stein [mailto:gstein@lyra.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 1:22 AM
> > To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: committers (again)
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:58:38AM -0000,
> > geronimo-dev-digest-help@incubator.apache.org wrote:
> > >...
> > > From: Dain Sundstrom <dain@coredevelopers.net>
> > > Subject: State of the Project
> > > To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > > Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 16:11:25 -0500
> > >...
> > > Another challenge facing us is how to grow the committer
> > base. There
> > > is some perception of a cathedral clique of insiders, whereas in
> >
> > Yup. One of the reasons that I suggested adding committers
> > ASAP. The more you wait, the more you reinforce this. You've
> > got a lot of people banging on the door, more than willing to
> > help. Open it, already. And do it on your own terms rather
> > than having the PMC do it.
>
> The door is open, but everyone is milling around in confusion. Let's fix
> it.
>
> >
> > > reality, many of the project management issues have arisen
> > because the
> > > current committers are not used to working together and are
> > new to the
> > > Apache Way. With the initial startup phase behind us, we will be
> > > looking to expand the project rapidly over the next couple
> > of months.
> >
> > There are few true barriers to adding committers. The notion
> > of "current committers are not used to working together" is a
> > red herring. You're already working with the community at
> > large. It has nothing to do with the current set of committers.
> >
>
> I don't think it's a red herring, I think it is a major part of the
> confusion. None of the folks new to Apache really know how it is
> supposed to work and, as I understand it, are tasked with the
> responsibility of deciding. IIRC only one person, ever, at ASF has had
> commit revoked, which should make granting it a decision not to be taken
> lightly.
>
> > I would recommend coming up with, say, a list of four people
> > and submit that list to pmc@incubator for consideration. How
> > about by end of week?
> >
>
> Do we do this in public, or private?
>
> This is not a cathedral question, but an attempt to handle the case
> where someone gets proposed, someone -1's the proposal and has to
> justify it - how do we avoid embarrassing or humiliating a contributor?
>
> > If you don't want to do this, then let's hear a discussion
> > about why. My previous emails on this subject have gone
> > unanswered. :-(
> >
>
> We do want to do it (at least I do) - and we could use some guidance
> from the PMC.
>
> --
> Jeremy
>
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Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/